The Shift From Teaching Content To Teaching Learning
It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.
Author: Grant Wiggins
Curriculum Is More Important Than Learning Technology
The overwhelming amount of information will surely impede learning for many students in the absence of teaching grounded in good curriculum.
How Good Teachers Decenter Themselves
How Good Teachers Decenter Themselves by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education As teachers we understandably believe that it is the ‘teaching’ that causes learning. But this is too egocentric a formulation. As I said in my previous post, the learner’s attempts to learn causes all learning. The teaching is a stimulus; the attempted learning (or lack of it) is the…
4 Easy Steps To Teach What Matters Most
4 Easy Steps To Teach What Matters Most by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education We have all said it and we have all heard it: there’s just no time to slow down and [fill in the blank], I have so much to cover… This, despite the fact that we all know, at some level, that it is not…
A Unique Approach To Pre And Post-Assessments
Constructing a pre- and post-assessment system helps you formally track how much progress you make within a given time period.
Where Essential Questions Come From
Where Do Essential Questions Come From? by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education “I didn’t know they could think!” an excited high school principal blurted out. The principal was reacting to what he had just witnessed: his 9th grade students engaging in their first-ever Socratic Seminar, facilitated by my colleague and wife Denise a few years ago in a…
When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension
When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking place nationally around the ELA Common Core Standards – especially, in light of the firm words from David Coleman himself about what close reading does…
The Difference Between Learning Strategies And Skills
Teaching tactics unmoored from helping kids become autonomous decision-makers is doomed to fail, even if good tactics become second nature.
The Problem With Rubrics In Learning
The problem with rubrics in learning is that they’re often subjective and their point systems are often arbitrary.
Teacher Planning Doesn’t Have To Stifle Creativity In Schools
by Grant Wiggins, Authenticeducation A recent query via Twitter asked a question we often hear: isn’t UbD (or any planning process) antithetical to such approaches as project-based learning and inquiry-based learning, since you can’t and shouldn’t plan for an unknown serendipitous result? More generally, isn’t there something faintly oppressive and hampering of creativity in such…
The Stupidification Of Good Ideas
By Grant Wiggins, Ph.D Stupidification (n): 1. A deadly illness in which perfectly good ideas and processes are killed as a result of thoughtless interpretation and implementation. 2. The reducing of intricate issues and processes to simplistic, rigid, and mandated policies, in the impatient quest for quick fixes to complex problems. No, it’s not a real…
Good Schools: Minding The Test Without The Panic
Minding The Test Without The Panic Editor’s Preface: As TeachThought grows, we are trying to include a consistently more diverse set of voices, authority, and expertise. This is what brought us to partner with Grant Wiggins to begin offering his personal thoughts on education–thoughts he shares on his personal blog. The following article is interesting,…
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